Tiger Woods shot a second round two-under-par 70, admitting a promising start “stalled” at the Hero World Challenge in the Bahamas.
Woods, 47, sunk four birdies in the opening nine holes at Albany, before three bogeys in the final six to finish on one over overall.
The 15-time major champion is competing for the first time since withdrawing from the Masters in April with injury.
“It was better than yesterday, for sure,” said Woods.
“The start was better, the middle part of the round was better.
“I missed a couple putts there towards the end I thought would have kept the round going and unfortunately it kind of stalled out a little bit.”
Woods, who had a three-over-par 75 in his first round, is 15th on the 20-player leaderboard, 10 shots behind fellow Americans Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth who lead the way on nine under.
England’s Matt Fitzpatrick is three shots further back, tied in fifth with Americans Tony Finau and Collin Morikawa.
Woods says that physical and mental fatigue contributed to his form tailing off in the latter half of his round.
